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“It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.”

People Matter Happens Opinion Learning Good Things Being True

Book:The Mortal Storm

Source: The Mortal Storm

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”

People Thinking Inspirational Speak Opinion Learning Customs Inclination

Author:Francis Bacon

“Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.”

Knows Mind Mean Strong Opinion Know How Learning Position Abandon Mediocrity Spirited Opinionated Mean Spirited Strong Mind

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.”

“If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.”

Ifs Men Love Age Lasts Religion Opinion Learning Youth Old Age Contradiction Etc Register Bundles Inconsistency

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

Men Writing Desire Peace Opinion Learning Harmony Arguing Good Man Making Peace Desire To Learn

Author:John Milton

“In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.”

Children Love Is Opinion Learning Mines Gentleness

Book:The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth

Source: The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth